Jiri
Prochazka ideally wouldn’t have fought so close to the expected
date of the birth of his first baby.
Prochazka is set to fight Carlos
Ulberg for the light heavyweight title in the main event at
UFC
327 on April 11 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Meanwhile, Prochazka and his girlfriend are expected to have their
first baby, a girl, between April 13 and April 15.
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Prochazka recently revealed that the originally expected date for
him to fight was on May 11. However, Prochazka’s girlfriend gave
him permission to fight on that date only for a massive matchup.
Prochazka then started negotiating with the UFC for a title fight,
which is now scheduled even closer to the expected date of the
birth of his girl.
It Has to Be a Big Fight
“I would like to rather fight later, in June or whenever,”
Prochazka said on „The Ariel Helwani Show.” “One month after the
birth [of my baby] will be the best. My girlfriend told me, ‘If you
have the title fight 11th of May — because that was the possible
date — let’s do that. But it has to be big fight. Don’t fight just
some similar fight because you can fight all year these other
normal fights.’ Then we started negotiating with the UFC about the
title fight. And here it is.”
Prochazka (32-5) has finished every opponent in the
UFC with the exception of Alex
Pereira, who beat him twice for the title. Meanwhile, Ulberg
(13-1) is on a nine-fight winning streak with six finishes since
suffering his lone career loss in his UFC debut in 2021.